1. Newsletter of the FoCAS Coordination Action Initiative
FUNDAMENTALS OF COLLECTIVE ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS F CAS
ISSUE 4: SUMMER 2014
Interviews Events
Reports Results CFPs
Publications and More
FoCAS is a Future and Emerging
Technologies Proactive Initiative
funded by the European Commission
under FP7.
www.focas.eu
2. Editorial
Autumn approaches!
Already we’ve reached issue four of our newsletter and
this finds FoCAS and the projects aflood with exciting
developments - workshops planned, summer schools
past, spring schools to the fore, research published in
journals and books and reports and observations from
ongoing project investigations.
In the coming weeks FoCAS are running two workshops,
both co-located alongside prestigious conferences: The
2nd FoCAS Workshop on the Fundamentals of Collective
Adaptive Systems at SASO2014, London on 8 September
with a Science Cafe in the evening, and a Workshop on
The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables at
UBICOMP2014 in Seattle, USA. Details on pages eight
and nine.
Also, inside we’ve an interview with Dario Floreano,
reports from the FoCAS Summer School and on Thomas
Schmickl at EvoStar and Makus Aleksey at WETICE.
Furthermore, SmartSociety detail some recent activities,
Diversify report on observing software monoculture,
Quanticol highlight new software they’ve released and
we give details of Swarm Organ’s appearance on BBC
Radio 4!
As ever, you’ll find information on upcoming related
events such as the ASCENS Spring School in March
2015, the FoCAS App Sprint, BPCAS 2014 in Haifa, Israel
and NIR 2014 at PPSN where we’re sponsoring a best
paper award.
We’d also like to draw your attention to the CFP for a
Special Issue on CAS in Scalable Computing: Practice
and Experience. Details opposite.
Our website at www.focas.eu houses an ever-growing
suite of useful resources and our FoCAS membership
now stands at over three hundred researchers who
receive regular e-bulletins. If you’re not already a
member, see opposite on how to get involved.
Best wishes, the FoCAS Coordination Action
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FoCAS READING ROOM
The FoCAS Reading Room provides online access to
a series of specially-commissioned feature articles
on all aspects of collective adaptive systems, and
links to relevant news-feeds and articles from other
publications. As a collective adaptive system itself,
there are opportunities for the community to get
involved, either by nominating prospective authors
for feature articles, or by contributing a features
article.
Please contact the the FoCAS editor:
Jeremy Pitt
(j.pitt@imperial.ac.uk).
www.focas-reading-room.eu
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and that of our partners and associated individuals
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Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive
Collective Wearables
at UBICOMP2014, 13 September Seattle, USA
Full details at: www.focas.eu/ubicomp-2014
CFP: Scalable Computing: Practive and Experience,
Special Issue on Collective Adaptive Systems
Submission Deadline: 15 December 2014
www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/pages/view/Call-issue-3-2015
2nd FoCAS Workshop on Collective Adaptive Systems
at SASO 2014, 8 September, London, UK | Accepted papers at: www.focas.eu/saso-2014
FoCAS sponsor best paper award at NIR 2014 part of PPSN
FoCAS sponsor best paper award at Workshop on Nature-inspired techniques for robotics on 13 September in Ljubljana,
Slovenia. Details available here: www.focas.eu/nir-2014
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3. Interview with Dario Floreano at GECCO 2014
Dario Floreano is the director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems and director of the Swiss
National Center of Competence in Robotics. His interests lie in the conjunction of robotics,
biology and artificial intelligence, work that has resulted in his membership of the Global Agenda
Council on Robotics and Smart Devices of the World Economic Forum, in co-founding the company
senseFly S.A., and founding the popular robotics podcast series Talking Robots (which later became
RobotsPodcast).
We caught up with Dario at GECCO 2014, the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference in Vancouver, where he was giving a keynote talk on how artificial evolution can be
used to address biological questions and explain phenomena for which there is no fossil record or
no experimental evidence, such evolution of behavior, altruism, and communication.
Our interviewer, Nicola Capodieci, talked to Dario Floreano about his views on the field of collective
adaptive systems:
What do you see as the key topics in the field of collective adaptive systems?
The most important and in fact most challenging topic is the reverse-engineering of collective
adaptive systems. We see colonies of ants that perform amazing things, we see multi-cellular
organisms such as ourselves in which cells with competing and conflicting interests work together,
but we still do not know how we can synthesize such systems. Therefore, reverse-engineering of
such systems is a key topic at the moment.
Are there any particular challenges regarding engineering such systems?
To reverse-engineer systems, we need heuristics, or some kind of numerical or physical
experiments. There are currently strong limitations with this. Think about simulating an organism
made of billions of soft cells – we can’t do it. We can’t even simulate ant colonies as physics based
simulations take too long. The tools for studying collective systems are currently a big limitation.
And finally what kind of collective adaptive systems do you think we will see in the future?
Staying with robotics, I think we will see multi-cellular robots: current robots are designed using
technologies such as gears and electronics that go back to the last century, emanating from the car
and manufacturing industries. Thinking about evolving robots that are able to grow and self-repair
will require us to go back to a cellular model for designing robots, which will have a huge impact on
what they can do in the future.
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4. FoCAS at events in April and June
EvoSTAR conferences in Granada,
Spain in April 2014
Thomas Schmickl from the FoCAS project
ASSISI bf gave the opening talk entitled
“Evolving bio-hybrid societies of animals
and robots” at the five EvoStar co-located
conferences on evolutionary and bio-inspired
computing held in Granada in
April 2014 (www.evostar.org). Showing
video demonstrations from ASSISI bf,
Prof Schmickl explained how robots and
computational devices are used to trick
animals to help study their behavior
and the social language of interaction
between animals. Bio‐mimicking can play
an active role to help form new behaviours.
Evolutionary computation and machine
learning help computational devices to
adapt and learn over time to better integrate
into bio-hybrid societies.
WETICE conference in Parma, Italy
in June 2014
FoCAS sponsored the invited speaker for
the 23rd IEEE conference on Enabling
Technologies: Infrastructures for
Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE.
Markus Aleksy, senior scientist from ABB,
a global leader in power and automation
technologies, spoke about “Wearable
and Mobile Systems for Improved Service
Delivery and Collaboration”. His talk
considered how increasingly smart factories
are able to provide flexible, resource-efficient
and ergonomic capabilities,
while acknowledging the importance of
planning through-life service solutions.
His particular focus was on wearable and
mobile systems which can access, process,
store and communicate information without
being constrained to a single location.
However, context-aware and smart systems
are challenging to design, maintain and
integrate especially into non-instrusive
systems with user-friendly interfaces, and
adaptation and remote collaboration add to
the complexity.
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5. Spring School on Engineering Collective Autonomic Systems
organized by the ASCENS project
23-27 March 2015 | Lucca, Italy
www.ascens-ist.eu/springschool2015
The ASCENS Spring School is aimed to give PhD students and other young researchers
a comprehensive overview of theoretical, practical, and technological issues related to
collective self-aware autonomic systems - so-called ensembles.
Keynote speakers: Marco Dorigo and Joseph Sifakis
Industry Talks to be announced
Activities
Presentations by ASCENS experts on
• Languages for collective autonomic systems
• Adaptation, awareness and knowledge representation of ensembles
• Modeling and verification of self-aware systems
• Engineering ensembles
Team work on case studies
Team presentations and feedback
www.ascens-ist.eu
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6. Gusz Eiben reports on FoCAS SUMMER SCHOOL 2014
The FOCAS Summer School 2014 took place at the University of Crete from 23-27 June. The backbone of
the Summer school was formed by three case studies, each led by one or two tutors. Tutors gave an outline
of their case studies to the participants on Monday morning, followed by bottom-up team forming, where
participants were grouped around the case studies. A case study required that the team solved a given
problem by Friday afternoon and presented the results in a plenary session. In this year’s edition the case
studies were:
• Lifelong learning and adaptation in collective robotics by Nicolas Bredeche
(Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
• Mapping the future of games in a Smart Society by Lucia Pannese (I-maginary srl, Milan, Italy) and
Dimitra Pappa (National Centre for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece
• Algorithmic Self-Governance for Socio-Technical Systems by Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College, London, UK)
The self-organized team forming resulted in four teams, two for Case Study 1 and one for Case Study 2 and 3.
The teams started with great enthusiasm and made long working days usually ending at 7pm, when a coach
took everybody from the university back to their hotels.
Further to the hands-on case studies, the summer school offered a scientific programme by invited lectures.
Additionally to the tutors (who each gave a presentation about their research area) there were two invited
speakers to break the week on Wednesday. Franco Zambonelli (Universita’ di Modena, Italy) talked about
“Engineering Socio-technical Urban Superorganisms” in the morning. The afternoon presentation by Katina
Michael (University of Wollongong, Australia) about “The Consequences of Living and Breathing with
Hyperconnectedness” implied a technical challenge, since she gave her talk through videoconferencing.
Perhaps to everybody’s surprise, everything went well and the five invited lectures contributed greatly to the
success of the summer school.
Naturally, a summer school is not only about science, but also about socializing and having fun together.
Bottom-up and top-down approaches were combined in this area as the week included three organized
events. A poster session and welcome reception on the Monday, a beach BBQ and volleyball contest on the
Wednesday, and last but not least the closing dinner on Friday evening. The scientific closure took place
on Friday afternoon when each team summarized their work, presenting the problem they addressed, the
approach they followed, and the results they produced. The tutors and the organizers were very pleased with
the amount and quality of work the teams did in just one week. It was pleasing to see the enthusiasm and the
good intentions to continue the collaboration with a joint paper as a future target.
Three people played an instrumental role in organizing everything for and around the Summer School:
Marina Bitsaki from the University of Crete, the local organizer, Nivea Ferreira (VU University Amsterdam),
the summer school coordinator, and Giorgos Karafotias (VU University Amsterdam, former grad student of
the University of Crete) who acted as a ‘special liaison officer’ and pseudo-local organizer for the FOCAS
CA Training Committee. On behalf of the management of the FOCAS CA, I want to thank them, the invited
speakers, and the tutors for the great summer school.
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7. www.smart-society-project.eu
FoCAS Summer School:
short report on a great
adventure!
by Lucia Pannese
I had the pleasure to be one of the tutors at the
Focas summer school in Heraklion during the last
week of June 2014: it was a great experience both
from the professional and the human point of view:
good work was done in an amazing team spirit and
good atmosphere full of enthusiasm
The SmartSociety dream team involved three
students, Luca, an Italian PhD from Trento, Remus,
a Rumanian PhD from Luxemburg and and Ayham,
a Syrian student who was even taking his final
exam during this week and who will do his PhD in
Holland.
First the group learnt
about SmartSociety
project concepts like
collectives, user and
task profiling, social
computation and
incentivisation. Then
the group used the
gamified environment
that is being designed to showcase the whole
complexity of underlying studies and modules of
the project. The three guys did a fantastic job in
producing a flow for gamification aspects through
different tourism apps. Using this they went on
to produce two mock-ups of apps that Imaginary
srl (my company!!) will include in the user
engagement exercises that are being conducted as
part of the SmartSociety project.
The pictures show a graph describing gamification
dynamics, a sketch to describe a touristic scenario
that students defined and two screens of a mock-up
app for tourism that was developed.
Aside the very full working days, some evenings
were organized: one to see some football matches
from the World Cup, a beach party with football
and volleyball tournament and a final dinner with
a view!
Next steps will foresee the inclusion of these
results in user engagement activities to collect
some useful data and ideally the plan would be to
prepare a paper for the FoCAS magazine together
with the three students to conclude this work.
Other SmartSociety News
SmartSociety’s Michael Rovatsos was part of the
scientific committee for the 16th European Agent
Systems Summer School (EASSS 2014), giving
the opening lecture on Multi-agent systems (MAS)
and MAS research. EASSS 2014 was held at the
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece , in
the week of 14-18th July. Primarily focussed on
single and multi-agent systems, this year’s school
featured additional courses covering topics related
to social intelligence. It was co-organised by the
European Network for Social Intelligence, serving
as their official Summer School.
EASSS featured lectures on Human-Agent
Collectives, Preference Handling, Agent-Oriented
programming, Dynamic Mechanism Design, Logic
for MAS , Cooperative Games, Voting, Auctions and
Norm Synthesis among others. Many talks had a
hands-on approach and guest speakers made a
point of nurturing interaction with the students.
BOOK
The SmartSociety project, in collaboration with FP7
Social-IST and EPSRC SOCIAM projects, has edited
a new book on “Social Collective Intelligence -
Combining the Powers of Humans and Machines
to Build a Smarter Society”. The book, published
by Springer, can be purchased online at www.
springer.com/computer/hci/book/978-3-319-
08680-4
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8. FoCAS Workshop on The Superorganism
of Massive Colle ctive Wearables
13 September 2014 - co-located with UBICOMP & ISWC 2014, Seattle, USA
Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler University
of Linz, Austria), Paul Lukowicz (Technical
University of Kaiserslautern in Germany) and
Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and
Reggio Emilia) have organized a topical research
workshop on the emerging issue of considering
personal wearable technologies like watches,
glasses or smartphones as collective adaptive
systems.
Personalized wearable ICT systems presented in
fashionable and appealing lifestyle-designs have
gained critical user acceptance, and comprise
momentum to bring wearable computing to a
socio-technical mass phenomenon within the
next few years. Early indicators for this expected
wearable systems ‘tsunami’ are the ‘spring tide’
of 5.3 billion mobile phone platforms (i.e. mobile
subscribers) as of the end of 2013, an assessed
market potential for 300 million smart watches
in 2014, and a possible market for more than
200 million smart eyewear systems in 2015 [1].
This workshop asks questions on the potentials
and opportunities of turning these massively
deployed wearable systems to a globe spanning
superorganism of socially interactive personal
digital assistants. While the individual wearables
are of heterogeneous provenance and typically
act autonomously, we can assume that they
can (and will) self-organize into large scale
cooperative collectives, with humans being
mostly out-of-the-loop. We may not assume
a common objective or central controller,
but rather volatile network topologies,
co-dependence and internal competition,
non-linear and non-continuous dynamics, and
sub-ideal, failure prone operation. We could
refer to these emerging massive collectives
of wearables as a “super-organism”, since it
exhibits properties of a living organism (like e.g.
‘collective intelligence’) on its own. In order to
properly exploit such superorganisms, we need
to develop a deeper scientific understanding
of the foundational principles by which they
operate.
Todays trends and observable indications for
a near future mass deployment of wearable
computing technologies will lead to modes
of use that go way beyond a pure individual,
personalized assistive technology. Taking todays
computational, sensory, actuation and wireless
communication capacities of such platforms,
it is not just considered possible, but already a
reality that these are programmed to operate
cooperatively as very large scale ensembles of
wearable appliances.
The workshop hypothesizes, that the foreseeable
mass deployment of wearable computing
technologies like smart phones, smart watches
or smart eyewear will lead to the emergence
of a dense digital substrate to externalize and
enhance our physical and social intelligence,
and make it a pervasive aspect of our individual
and social lives.
The workshop attempts to address the
following foundational research concerns:
• Understanding the trade-offs between the
power of top-down (by design) adaptation
means and bottom-up (by emergence) ones
• Understanding the “power of the masses”
principle as far as participatory wearable
ICT processes are involved
• Understanding the issue of diversity and of
diversity increase in complex systems and in
service/data systems
• Laying down new foundations for the
modelling of large-scale Human-ICT
organisms and their adaptive behaviors
• Identifying models and tools by which
individual organs of the systems can
influence and direct “by design” the
emergent adaptive behavior of the whole
system
The workshop also attempts to address the
following systems research concerns:
• Opportunistic information collection
• Collaborative reasoning and emergent
effects
• Social awareness
Full details at: www.pervasive.jku.at/ubicomp14
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9. 2nd FOCAS Workshop on Fundamentals of
Collective Adaptive Systems
Monday, 8 September 2014 - co-located with SASO 2014, London, UK
Full details at: www.focas.eu/saso-2014
Invited talk and discussion by Franco Zambonelli
Engineering Collective Behaviors in Future Smart Cities
In this talk, Franco sketches a future vision of urban superorganisms and identifies the key challenges in
engineering innovative services that seemingly involve ICT devices and humans, harnessing the power of
pervasive social intelligence to improve the quality and sustainability of urban environments. In particular,
he discusses how the lessons of bio-inspired computing can be a promising starting point for engineering
urban superorganisms, but also highlights the requirement of synthesizing lessons from socially-inspired
computing models. He presents his recent experience in the context of the SAPERE (“Self-aware Pervasive
Service Ecosystems”) European project, and sketches directions for future research.
Accepted Papers
Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems
• Building blocks for aggregate programming of self- organising applications
Jacob Beal and Mirko Viroli
• Enabling Self-expression: the Use of Roles to Dynamically Change Adaptation Patterns
Mariachiara Puviani, Giacomo Cabri and Letizia Leonardi
• A Goal Model for Collective Adaptive Systems
Antonio Bucchiarone, Claudio Antares Mezzina and Heorhi Raik
• A Perspective on Defining the Collective Adaptive Systems Problem
Niranjan Suri and Andrew Scott
Applications of Collective Adaptive Systems
• Data verification for collective adaptive systems: spatial model-checking of vehicle location data
Vincenzo Ciancia, Stephen Gilmore, Diego Latella, Michele Loreti and Mieke Massink
• On Intention Propagation Based Prediction in Autonomously Self-adapting Navigation
Laszlo Z. Varga
• Towards a Real World Simulator for Collaborative Distributed Learning in The Scenario of Urban Mobility
Andreas Poxrucker, Gernot Bahle and Paul Lukowicz
• Modelling residential smart energy schemes
Vashti Galpin
Nature-Inspired Techniques for Collective Adaptive Systems
• Social Adaptation of Robots for Modulating Self- Organization in Animal Societies
Payam Zahadat, Michael Bodi, Ziad Salem, Frank Bonnet, Marcelo Elias de Oliveira,
Francesco Mondada, Karlo Griparic, Tomislav Haus, Stjepan Bogdan, Rob Mills,Pedro Mariano,
Luis Correia, Olga Kernbach, Serge Kernbach and Thomas Schmickl
• On the ‘Local-to-Global’ Issue in Self-Organisation: Chemical Reactions with Custom Kinetic Rates
Stefano Mariani
• Scalability Issues of Firefly-based Self- Synchronization in Collective Adaptive Systems
Iva Bojic, Tomislav Lipic and Mario Kusek
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10. Swarm-Organ on BBC Radio 4
www.swarm-organ.eu
The Project Leaders of the two UK partners of
the SWARM-ORGAN project team, Veronica
Grieneisen, from the Computational and
Systems Biology Department of the John
Innes Centre, and Yaochu Jin, from the
Department of Computing of the University
of Surrey, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s weekly
science show Frontiers. They discussed how
understanding genetic regulatory networks of
cells and biological development influences
research into developing swarm robots, as well
as the challenges and aims of working with
actual robots.
Snapshot of simulated swarm dynamics showing bot-trajectories and their current individual states;
This robot simulator is developed by the SwarmOrgan Consortium
(acknowledgements: Dr. Matthew Hartley working with Grieneisen Lab, John Innes Centre).
Listen to the full episode Swarming Robots here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047zrlc
Visit JIC’s website to read a summary of the interview:
www.jic.ac.uk/news/2014/07/bbc-radio-4-frontiers-swarming-robots
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11. Specifying and Verifying
Properties of Space
Spatial aspects of position, location and adjacency
play a strong role in collective adaptive systems in
shaping the behaviour which can emerge from a
system.
The QUANTICOL project has implemented a model
checker that operates on space in the sense of a
model described by topological means, or, more
precisely, by closure spaces. Closure spaces
encompass topological spaces and graph-like
structures.
www.quanticol.eu
The work is supported by a model-checker tool, implemented using the functional language OCaml, which
contains a generic implementation of a global model checker using closure spaces, parametrised by the type
of models. The model-checker is available from: https://github.com/vincenzoml/slcs
An example of the tool usage is to approximately identify regions of interest on a digital picture (e.g., a map,
or a medical image), using spatial formulae. In this case, digital pictures are treated as quasi-discrete models
in the integer cartesian plane. The language of propositions is extended to formulae dealing with colour
ranges, in order to cope with images where there are different shades of certain colours.
Applications of the model-checker include finding your way out of a maze, when given a picture of the maze.
In another example, the model-checker was given a portion of the map of Pisa, featuring a red circle which
denotes a train station. Streets of different importance are painted with different colours in the map. The
model checker is used to identify the area surrounding the station which is delimited by main streets, and the
delimiting main streets.
The spatial model-checker has also been used to
identify errors in GPS data reporting the location
of buses in the Edinburgh bus fleet. Collective
adaptive systems depend strongly on good-quality
data, which they use in deciding whether or not
to take adaptive action. The QUANTICOL project
mapped GPS data points onto an Open Street Map
in order to be able to use spatial model-checking
to classify GPS position reports as being plausible
(the bus is on its route) or implausible (the bus is
in the middle of a field). GPS data is inherently
noisy and by using their spatial model-checker the
QUANTICOL project is able to detect poor-quality
data.
More information is available at: http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/quanticol/technical-reports
Authors: Vincenzo Ciancia, Stephen Gilmore, Diego Latella, Michele Loreti, Mieke Massink
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12. EXPLORING
SOFTWARE
MONOCULTURE
Internet applications are formed from reusable components all over the software stack. Both on the client and
the server side, web-specific libraries and frameworks enable creative developers to wrap up rich applications
within very short time. Massive re-use happens both on the client side (on the browser) and on the server side
(in the data-center). For instance, jQuery is a popular client-side JavaScript library, which drastically improves
the development of responsive web applications. Spring is an example of a server-side technology, which
is used on millions of servers. The open-source philosophy and ecosystem is one of the backbones of this
massive re-use in Internet applications
Re-use and modularity are key for liberating creativity and entrepreneurship in the Internet world. However,
this bright world has a darker side. The problem is that they participate in creating a massive monoculture,
in a way that has never been encountered before. The DIVERSIFY project recently explored two technological
monocultures found on the web: content management and dynamic pages.
WordPress
In the top 500.000 web sites (1), we found 106.412 sites running WordPress. Among these sites, 65.558 (64%)
use the Akismet plugin, which checks potential spam in WordPress comments. 21.849 web sites (22,6%) use
the Jetpack plugin, which has a known SQL injection vulnerability, even in the latest version. Figure 1 shows
the distribution of the 400 most popular plugins (2) among the web sites that we analyzed.
This data provides evidence for two levels of applicative monoculture. First, at the level of the application:
with more than 20% of the top web sites using WordPress, we see emerging a technological monoculture for
content management. While the vibrant community who keeps producing large quantities of diverse plugins
could compensate this monoculture, we observe the opposite effect. The second level of monoculture is in the
distribution of plugins, largely skewed towards a very small number of plugins. Consequently, a single attack
on a zero-day flaw on WordPress is able to compromise thousands of Internet web sites.
JavaScript
We did a similar study for JavaScript libraries, based on the top 110.000 web sites. We focused on 94 libraries,
starting from the list of notable libraries established by Wikipedia (3) that we enriched with libraries found
while crawling the sites. Among the visited sites, 97.000 (88%) use JavaScript, which, in itself, constitutes
a massive monoculture. Figure 2 displays the distribution of libraries among the sites that use JavaScript. It
appears that a single library holds the largest share of the sites: jQuery is used by 37% of the sites. Then, the
distribution drops drastically: Sizzle and jQuery UI are used by 13% and 12% of the sites respectively. The
other libraries are used by less than 10% of the sites, including 78 plugins that are used in less than 1% of
the cases.
1 According to www.alexa.com
2 According to www.wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular
3 www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JavaScript_libraries www.diversify-project.eu
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13. Organic Computing — A Paradigm Shift for Complex Systems
Müller-Schloer, Christian, Schmeck, Hartmut, Ungerer, Theo (Eds.)
2011, XXX, 627p. 100 illus., 10 illus. in color.
A product of Birkhäuser Basel
www.springer.com/birkhauser/computer+science/book/978-3-0348-0129-4
Clarissa: Cloud Adaptation & Application (Re-)Distribution: Bridging the two Perspectives.
Gómez Sáez, Santiago; Andrikopoulos, Vasilios; Wessling, Florian; Cassales Marquezan. In:
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Cloud Applications & Services
(EnCASE 2014)
Performance-aware Application Distribution in the Cloud.
Gómez Sáez, Santiago; Andrikopoulos, Vasilios; Leymann, Frank.
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Enterprise Architekturen mit Big Data & Cloud
(EABDC 2014)
Are two heads better than one?
On the success of collective decision-making
Blog post available at:
www.assisi-project.eu/index.php/blog/two-heads-better-one-success-collective-decision-making
Quantified CTL: Expressiveness and Complexity.
François Laroussinie, Nicolas Markey.
In Logical Methods in Computer Science. 2014. (To appear)
Synthesizing structured reactive programs via deterministic tree automata.
Benedikt Brütsch.
In Information & Computation. Elsevier, 2014. (To appear)
Programming Social Collective Intelligence. Daniele Miorandi and Lorenzo Maggi.
To appear in IEEE Technology and Society, special issue on Technology for Collective
Action (2014). www.smart.inf.ed.ac.uk/programming-social-collective-intelligence
On the Elasticity of Social Compute Units. Mirela Riveni, Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram
Dustdar. Springer-Verlag, 26th International Conference on Advanced Information
Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2014), 16-20 June 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece. Accepted.
www.smart.inf.ed.ac.uk/on-the-elasticity-of-social-compute-units
UPCOMING RELATED EVENTS
SASO See, SASO Do: From Computational Awareness to Collective Adaptation a FoCAS Science Cafe at SASO
2014 - Monday 8 September, Imperial College London
BPCAS 2014: 1st International Workshop on Business Processes in Collective Adaptive Systems 8 September
2014, Haifa, Israel - www.bpcas.org
Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables
at UBICOMP2014, 13 September, Seattle, USA - www.focas.eu/ubicomp-2014
NIR 2014 at PPSN (13th Int. Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature) Workshop on Nature-inspired
techniques for robotics, 13 September, Ljubljana, Slovenia - www.focas.eu/nir-2014
FoCAS App Sprint: 24-26 September, Barcelona, Spain
ASCENS Spring School: Spring School on Engineering Collective Autonomic Systems
23-27 March 2015 | Lucca, Italy - www.ascens-ist.eu/springschool201
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16. FUNDAMENTALS OF COLLECTIVE ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS F CAS
FoCAS supported projects:
FoCAS coordinates the research of 9 research
projects, but anyone or group can join if they have
a research interest in Collective Adaptive Systems:
www.focas.eu
FoCAS project partners
Centre for Emergent Computing
(Edinburgh Napier University, UK)
Computational Intelligence Group
(VU University, Amsterdam)
Agent and Pervasive Computing Group
(University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Intelligent Systems & Networks Group
(Imperial College London)
Institute for Pervasive Computing
(JKU, Linz, Austria)
The socio-technical fabric of our society
more and more depends on systems that are
constructed as a collective of heterogeneous
components and that are tightly entangled
with humans and social structures. Their
components increasingly need to be able to
evolve, collaborate and function as a part of an
artificial society.
Twitter: @FETFoCAS | #FETFoCAS
FoCAS is a FET FP7 project 2013-2016
Background images courtesy Dr Matthew Hartley, ASSISI | bf, Quanticol.
ALLOW ENSEMBLES www.allow-ensembles.eu
New design principles for large-scale collective
systems
ASCENS www.ascens-ist.eu
Autonomic service-component ensembles
ASSISI | BF www.assisi-project.eu
Animal and robot Societies Self-organise and
Integrate by Social Interaction
CASSTING www.cassting-project.eu
Collective Adaptive System SynThesIs with
Non-zero-sum Games
DIVERSIFY www.diversify-project.eu
Ecology-inspired software diversity for distributed
adaptation in CAS
ORGANIC COMPUTING
www.organic-computing.de
Organic computer systems consist of autonomous
and cooperating subsystems
QUANTICOL - blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/quanticol
A Quantitative Approach to Management and
Design of Collective and Adaptive Behaviours
SMARTSOCIETY www.smart-society-project.eu
Hybrid and Diversity-Aware Collective Adaptive
Systems
SWARM-ORGAN www.swarm-organ.eu
A theoretical framework for swarms of GRN-controlled
agents which display adaptive tissue-like
organisation
